What is boxing and how it is done internally?
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Answer / surya
Boxing is an implicit conversion of a value type to the
type object
int i = 123; // A value type
Object box = i // Boxing
CASTING: casting is the process of converting a variable
from one type to another (from a string to an integer)
Unboxing is an explicit conversion from the type object to
a value type
int i = 123; // A value type
object box = i; // Boxing
int j = (int) box; // Unboxing
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Answer / sesu
Boxing is the conversion value type to ref. type.
int i=5 -- value type
Object obj; -- Referance type
obj=i; -- Boxing
int j =(int) obj -- Unboxing
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Answer / sandhya
Boxing is an implicit conversion of a value type to the
type object
int i = 123; // A value type
Object box = i // Boxing
In case of value type ,value is stored in the stack but
after boxing process value is stored in to heap.
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Answer / sudhir singh
the process of converting value type to reference type is
called as boxing.
it is an implicit conversion.
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